Professional Planting Design: An Architectural and Horticultural Approach for Creating Mixed Bed Plantings

"This is a great reference book for planting design, which is an
arena where so many of us are hugely challenged. Information in it
is well written, engaging, useful, accessible, and original."
-- Holly H. Shimizu, Executive Director, United States Botanic
Garden

"After reading the book, you will be able to experiment with
nature and use its myriad of facets to make your own original
statement. You will be ready to take risks and design exciting and
original gardens."
-- From the Foreword by James A. van Sweden, Oehme, van Sweden
& Associates

A comprehensive guide to the "high art" of designing mixed bed
plantings

When done successfully, mixed beds represent the pinnacle of
planting design -- a living work of art in which small trees,
shrubs, perennials, grasses, bulbs, tropicals, and groundcovers
combine to create a true feeling of place. Professional Planting
Design initiates you into the principles of planting design and
helps you develop the ability to think about the planting design
process, so that you can develop your own effective compositions
that sustain multi-seasonal interest.

Richly illustrated with photographs and drawings,
Professional Planting Design covers the basics as well as
the advanced concepts of planting design including: selecting plant
characteristics, types of mixed bed plantings, structuring and
composing mixed beds, creating mixed palettes for seasonal
variation, designing in elevation and plan view, and choosing
plants. You'll find coverage of design, landscape architecture, and
horticulture interwoven throughout the guide, along with detailed
steps for developing mixed bed planting compositions at a variety
of scales for projects on both residential and commercial
sites.

Clear and concise yet thorough, this book will supplement your
talent with the knowledge you need to create harmonious mixed
plantings in the landscape that will provide continual interest
throughout the seasons.

Scott C. Scarfone, ASLA, is a principal at Oasis Design Group, a landscape architecture, planning, and design firm he founded in historic Fells Point in Baltimore, Maryland. He is an instructor in the continuing education programs at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, The School of the Chicago Botanic Garden in Chicago, and Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland. He frequently lectures around the country on various topics including garden design, planting design, and garden travel. Scott is a registered landscape architect and a certified professional horticulturist with a specialization in herbaceous perennials.

"The great mysteries of successful planting design are unraveled by
landscape architect Scott Scarfone in Professional Planting Design.
Scarfone sets out the guidelines to allow anyone from an avid
amateur gardener to a professional landscape designer or architect
to create a living work of art with plants." (The American
Gardner, May/June 2008)

"Using mainly black and white drawings and photographs to
illustrate principles, he prods the reader to think first of
architectural concepts, forms and textures before considering color
compositions. High marks go to the author for his presentation on
the application of theory." (Chicago Botanic Garden Current
Books and Book Reviews Web page; summer 2007)

"It is a ‘go-to’ reference for a variety of design
topics from useful definitions of design fundamentals to more
complex considerations of massing plants, structuring space, and
deconstructing design compositions to understand how they
function." (Landscape Architecture: The Magazine of the American
Society of Landscape Architects, February 2008, Vol. 98, No.
2)

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